Gandhi

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born in India, and was a leader for the people during the 1900's. He wanted the Indian people to become free of the British control, but he wanted to use non-violence and non-cooperation to do so. He urged Indians to boycott imported British good, such as clothes, and to not attend the British controlled government schools. One of his famous acts was the Salt March, where he walked 200 miles to the Indian Ocean to make salt, because the British had such a high tax on salt. Gandhi also tried to include all groups into his peaceful protest movement. He reached out to Muslims, the "untouchables" and women. He envisioned a strong, independent, and united India that was free of unfair Western control and gave equal rights to all its citizens. The point of his movements was to provoke the British government to react while the Indian people demonstrated non-cooperation. He believed that the key was to not retaliate violently to the British, or that would ruin the system of non-cooperation. This is so that when the British act violently, it makes the India seem very innocent and oppressed.
Gandhi vs. Tagore

	Gandhi	Tagore
Burning Clothes	Necessary to end imperialism Empires are fundamentally economic ventures Power issue Unbalanced relationship- Get rid of it and then solve the economic problem; the unbalanced relationship causes the economic problem*	-Immoral Millions of poor people Must address poverty Economic problem, you wouldn't make a scarce substance more scarce
Attending Government Schools	Don't go! Schools create cogs (clerks and interpreters) in the evil machine (the empire) Don't cooperate with evil Go and you'll become enslaved	Go-you'll become smarter and India needs smarter people to solve it's people, go and you'll become liberate
	Moral now Practical later	Practical Will lead to moral solutions
	Negative acts are necessary to get rid of evil and be able to do positive things (positive + negative=purity)	Positive
	Reject current western system because it is evil, remove that evil you can deal with what's left; get rid of west but not forever	Modernizer-Westernizer

Failure of non-cooperation would be that people are not pure enough to be non-violent

*Don't want a Great Wall between them and the western world though
He is a traditionalist but not completely so. He encourages the rejection of the current Western ideals because they are unfair. To leave from the past you must get rid of that which is unfair--he does not want to reject Western ideals forever, only until they change and India can be independent. He encourages going back to the past because India is poor; a poor country must return to the time when it was successful in order to move forward. Also encouraged sacrifice in order for the goal to be accomplished. If one is pure making sacrifices should not be a burden. Also, he sees the problem as a power problem--fixing the power first and then the economic will truly resolve the problem.